Goofy comedy classic.
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:16
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A distracted professor invents an anti-gravity goo called Flubber that makes anything it's applied to lighter-than-air, including the family flivver and the balls at the school's basketball game.... A distracted professor invents an anti-gravity goo called Flubber that makes anything it's applied to lighter-than-air, including the family flivver and the balls at the school's basketball game. MacMurray couldn't be better in patented Disney fare. Sequel is Son of Flubber. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best (Black-and-White) Cinematography (though the film later was colorized). [More]
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames, Ed Wynn, Edward Andrews, David Lewis
Director: Robert Stevenson
Director: Robert Stevenson
Producer: Walt Disney
Screenwriter: Bill Walsh
Composer: George Bruns
Reviews for The Absent-Minded Professor
Flubber provides fuel for a very funny piece of hyperbolic humor in the grand American tradition of Paul Bunyan, and Director Robert Stevenson and Scriptwriter Bill Walsh get plenty of bounce out of every ounce.
This is a zanily inventive piece of work, with delightful special effects, which set the style for a long series of live-action Disney films.
MacMurray is ideally cast as the car-hopping prof, and plays the role with warmth and gusto.
Disney produces a goofy lightweight Mack Sennett-like family comedy fantasy film that's joyfully directed by Robert Stevenson.
The original's simple humor looks remarkably tired compared with the story's energetic and much more inventive remake.
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